I have the terminal set on ISO-8859-1. If I force it to 70 characters I see the following:
$ perl -le 'print "e1 " x 25' e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e 1 e1 $ perl -le 'print "\xe91 " x 25' é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 WTF? Why is the hateful thing doing some sort of word wrapping whenever the line has a non-ASCII character? Why can't I disable it? Which moron thinks that this is useful behaviour? Where do they live? Can I claim "provocation" as my defence against any charges that might arise? Nicholas Clark
